National Command and Operations Center (NCOC) has eased prevailing COVID-19 restrictions across the country allowing indoor dining and reopening of cinemas in wake of significant fall in COVID-19 cases and positivity rate.
As per the eased COVID-19 restrictions, cinemas across Pakistan will reopen from Thursday July 1st this week.
Only vaccinated people will be allowed in cinemas which will be allowed to operate till 1 am. Cinemas staff will have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 whereas the management will be obliged to institute a mechanism for checking the vaccination certificates of visitors as well.
As per the new COVID-19 restrictions;
- Indoor dining to reopen on July 1 with 50% capacity
- Markets allowed to stay open till 10pm
- Shrines, gyms to reopen
- 400 vaccinated guests allowed in outdoor weddings
- 200 vaccinated guests allowed in indoor weddings
- Public transport to operate at 70% capacity
- Vaccination certificate declared mandatory for indoor dining
Furthermore, NCOC has also allowed continuation of normal working hours for public and private offices with 100% attendance.
There will be one closed day during the week and the selection of that day will be at the discretion of federating units, said the NCOC.
!function(e,i,n,s){var t=”InfogramEmbeds”,d=e.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement(“script”);o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src=”https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js”,d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,”infogram-async”);The development comes as Pakistan reported its lowest daily COVID-19 tally since October with 706 new cases along with positivity rate of 1.78% on Tuesday (today).
The country reported 23 COVID-19 casualties in the past 24 hours.
Pakistan’s total COVID-19 tally stands at 956,392 cases with 22,254 deaths so far. A total of 901,985 people have successfully recovered from the novel virus, whereas 1,946 are still in critical condition.
